iPhone Alarm Sound Not Working When I Wear my Watch
I sleep with my Apple Watch on and my iPhone alarm does not make a sound when it goes off. The phone and the watch both vibrate, but no sound. If my watch is on the charger, it works.
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I sleep with my Apple Watch on and my iPhone alarm does not make a sound when it goes off. The phone and the watch both vibrate, but no sound. If my watch is on the charger, it works.
Yea, this wasn’t a setting requested. Not sure why they took it upon themselves to add it. It’s now a nuisance. Now I have to decide do I wear my watch to bed and run the risk of oversleeping if I’m that tired because the watch alarm is nowhere as loud as the phone. Apple please fix this!
Yea, this wasn’t a setting requested. Not sure why they took it upon themselves to add it. It’s now a nuisance. Now I have to decide do I wear my watch to bed and run the risk of oversleeping if I’m that tired because the watch alarm is nowhere as loud as the phone. Apple please fix this!
Try this, it’s worked for me after having the same issue.
This may be “expected behavior” but it is a significant change from iOS 16.x. Now when I wear my Apple Watch to bed to track sleep, my Wake alarm (which used to make a sound on my iPhone) no longer makes any sound. Instead, my watch vibrates. (I keep my watch silenced all the time.) Please modify the settings to give the user the choice: Wake alarm on phone, on watch, or both. FWIW, I love and use the new horizontal display. (iPhone 14 Pro)
You are going to make me oversleep after conditioning me to use Apple Sleep and Wake!
I called Apple Support and went through some trial and error. It turns out that the audible Wake Alarm on the iPhone does not sound when the iPhone is in the new StandBy (horizontal display) mode. It works as before when not using the StandBy mode.
I submitted a bug report.
This is also happening to me on my brand new iPhone Max Pro. None of the stock suggestions is the case, everything is set to the proper settings and levels. Anyone have any new suggestions - I'm missing any alarm that is AFTER the first alarm which tends to go off, all subsequent alarms go off but are silent.
Yesterday I upgraded from an Apple Watch Ultra to the Ultra Watch 2 - & the iPhone alarm would not sound on the new watch. On my previous watch the iPhone alarm always sounded & displayed on the watch & allowed me to stop/snooze the alarm from the watch with no issues.
All my settings from my original watch were reinstated on the Ultra 2 when I paired it to my iPhone. I realise the U2 has some new settings (such as gesture controls) but can't see any changes in any of the alarm related settings (including all of those mentioned above which I have checked - they were all correct but I still toggled them on/off to see if that made a difference).
The watch is now 'intermittently' sounding / showing the iPhone alarm but not consistently - it seems to work around 3 times in 5 without changes to any of the settings on either device.
My background is tech - the logic of what I am seeing definitely seems to suggest their is an issue with the code used for the alarm hand off between the phone & the new watch. I should mention that I did upgrade my iPhone to iOS 17.1.1 before pairing the Ultra 2 - so perhaps this has a bearing.
Either way I hope that someone at Apple is noting this issue & that we may have an answer / fix in an interim software release.
It seems like there might be a setting or configuration causing this issue with your iPhone alarm when your Apple Watch is worn and not charging. Here are a few troubleshooting steps you can try to resolve the problem:
If the problem persists after trying the above steps, it's best to contact Apple Support for further assistance. They can provide more in-depth troubleshooting and help you resolve the specific issue with your devices.
This is why I find these “discussions” useless. This is not Apple help this is only Apple users.
“It is hardly my responsibility to make sure you, an adult, get up on time. I don't even know you so how could I make sure you got up on time?”
Not really helpful.
Apple should offer a more thoughtful array of options here, unless there is a setting that has been changed through the update process. But I’m pretty sure you understood that.
Not accurate.
all alarms from the first iphone to now are ‘breakthrough alarms’, meaning: the alarm app is the only app with the ability to set an alarm, which completely ignores the silent mode switch on the side of your iPhone. That switch is now and has always been irrelevant to this discussion. If Apple designed the Apple Watch in such a way that engaging the silent mode on your watch, secretly overrides and silences and nullifies the alarms that you have set on a completely separate device… end it did not provide a huge red banner, warning on the screens of the devices…
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AhsokaTano22 wrote:
According to ChatGPT's answers, it gives a good, reasonable answer and gives many ways for you to try if something is wrong. Yes, in some ways, ChatGPT cannot be useful but I read through their answer to make sure it is reliable information.
Unfortunately, as you've given few answers of your own, we have no way of knowing how able you are to judge the information you're posting.
Are you saying the expected behavior is if I’m wearing my my watch to bed my morning alarms won’t sound? Because that’s what’s happening to me. If I don’t wear the watch, the phone’s alarms sound. Sleep is a bit different from the other focus types and when you use the health/sleep app to set a wake up time with an alarm, it should disable sleep at that time it sounds the alarm. Sleep turns off, but with no audible alarm.
Just go to the Watch app then to NOTIFICATIONS, scroll down to MIRROR IPHONE ALERTS FROM and turn off your alarm clock app. Worked for me!
According to ChatGPT's answers, it gives a good, reasonable answer and gives many ways for you to try if something is wrong. Yes, in some ways, ChatGPT cannot be useful but I read through their answer to make sure it is reliable information.
etownAndy wrote:
Thats the thing though. For myself and at leats one other person who's responded, the watch doesn't go off either.
I would suggest deleting and re-adding the sleep schedule in Health. Also, unpair and re-pair the watch.
iPhone Alarm Sound Not Working When I Wear my Watch